The Highlight of the whole season

Your chance to give your opinions and ideas on how the season has gone and what you would like to see going forwards.

Last chance to show your intention to join us on our Spring Social next week

The final round of Judging for this season

Last season we had a surprisingly good response to the AV (Audio Visual) competition. Lets see if we can better it.

An opportunity to bring your camera and lenses in and share information with other Club members. You will probably learn something yourself

So this it. The final round of Judging to decide who will be this years winner

Good luck to all that enter

Hand-in for the Challenge Cup (Gloucester)

Max of 3 entries

Hand-in for the Audio Visual (AV) Competitions

The theme was ‘Architecture’ and this evening we will see your results

Good luck to all that have entered

Hand in for Round 6 of our annual competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

Once again, we can sit back and enjoy some of the wonderful images from the Cheltenham International Salon of Photography. Always inspirational. Keep your eyes open for any submitted images by anyone from our own club

Are there any longer-term members that can recall us ever beating Cheltenham Camera Club in one of these Battles?

If so, do let us know

One day we will be victorious. Perhaps it is this evening

Hand-in for the Gloucester Cup (Architectural Photography)

Max of 3 entries

Almost as famous as Bill Ward who should have been speaking this evening, we have our very own Mark Kemp giving us his talk about gear and technique for photographing birds. At least as much as he has learned so far.

Our 5th round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

Once again, we go into Battle with the Forest of Dean Camera Club. We came 2nd last time out so perhaps tonight the honours are ours.

Hand-in for Round 5 of our annual competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

The theme for the Challenge Competition is “Gloucester” so we have invited Tony Condon, a member of the Gloucestershire Local History Association to share some pictures of Gloucester, old and new, buildings, locations and views to give members some inspiration to get out and shoot Gloucester.

Our 4th round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

This is fairly new Battle and we have fared reasonably in the past. Hopefully we can come out victorious again.

All Prints and Digital Images are judged at each of the 3 Venues. The overall winner will be the aggregate score

Tonight, Julian will visiting from France to give us a talk on Architectural Photography in support of this season’s Gloucester Cup

Check out his work - https://www.julianelliottphotography.com/architecture-photos/

Hand-in for Round 4 of our annual competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

Our 2nd internal Photo Critique evening of the season

As before, we critique any images ourselves. Feel free to pass comment suggesting ideas for improvement etc.

Images will be obtained from the Photo-Entry system so get your images uploaded in plenty of time.

Our 3rd round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

Judging for our Panel Competition both in Print and PDI formats

Good luck to all who have entered

Mike is a very active member of Bristol Photographic Society, he lectures on the BPS Intro To Photography course, he organises the Bristol Photographers With Disabilities group and is also the studio manager at BPS.

This talk charts his journey into creative portraits, discussing how to get started, the value of collaboration with others, thoughts composition and style, the importance of shooting for yourself, all illustrated with prints on Fotospeed papers and inks prints.  Images are accompanied with a description of the processing in an attempt to de-mystify and to encourage members of the audience to become more adventurous and have a go themselves. If time permits (rarely does) I show how I made some of the creative images, including 'before and after' shots.

To see more of Mike’s work, check out his website…

https://www.mikemartinphotography.co.uk/

Hand-In for the Panels Competition

Peter is a long time friend of Gloucester Camera Club, first visiting the club as a judge way back in 1990 and this will be his 20th visit over the years either as a judge or as a speaker

One of only 30 or so photographers in the UK to hold that very prestigious MFIAP distinction, we can expect to see work of the very highest quality.

For a brief preview of his work, take a look at his portfolio on the Smethwick PS website

https://smethwickps.co.uk/member-galleries/member-galleries-by-subject/monochrome/peter-gennard/

Our 2nd round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

We welcome Phil, (who judged Round 5 of our Annual Competition last season,) back to the club to present some of his work.

Phil says he has been an Art lover from an early age, with a particular interest in Surrealism & Expressionism. His portfolio contains classic shots of Landscapes, Nature etc. but his passion is creating "other worldly" composites from as many as 1,000 of my photographs, that give a glimpse into worlds that don't exist.

These images take many hours, sometime months, to create.

To take a look at his work, his website is:

https://philcooling.zenfolio.com/

This evening we will have 3 professional models at the club for us to photograph.

Space will be limited but we should be able to photograph Portraits

We will have Studio Lights and Remote Flash Triggers

Probably some chaos but it will be fun and informative

Hand-in for Round 2 for our Annual Competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

This is a lecture on my personal view of what judges look for in the composition of a good picture using my own photographs to illustrate. There are lots of my pictures in this lecture which I hope would be of interest to photographers of all levels of experience and include some audio-visual sequences.

Peter says that he has spent most of his life taking photographs and have been an active member of Beacon Camera Club for over 25 years. He gained his LRPS and ARPS in Visual Art and then a second ARPS in MultiMedia. He has a full range of photographic styles, turning his hand to most things, and have had success in club and regional competitions and have served as a judge for many years. His current photographic interest is in creating audio-visual sequences.

Our first of our regular round of 6 throughout the year. Let’s see if we can beat the regulars this season.

Good luck to all who have entered.

An introduction to Panels.

A panel is a series of normally 5 images that all balance and complement each other.

The rules for panels will be covered by Jay in the first half of this evening

An introduction to Studio Lighting

After the break we shall be setting and testing our Studio Lighting equipment. An ideal opportunity to see how it all works. Much of our equipment has not been tested since we acquired it. This is partially in preparation for the 3 Models shoot coming up very soon.

Bring your camera laong. There may be an opportunity to use it this evening

Hand-in for Round 1 of our Annual Competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

Our first Photo Critique evening of the season

As before, we critique any images ourselves. Feel free to pass comment suggesting ideas for improvement etc.

Images will be obtained from the Photo-Entry system so get your images uploaded in plenty of time.

A welcome to the new season.

A welcome to any new members

An introduction to what we have coming up this coming season

Please bring along a USB stick containing some images that you have taken over the summer months and give us a small presentation

Hand-in for Photo Critique next week

Max 10 entries. Enter in importance order. Latter entries may need to be culled if we have too many in total